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Copperplate Photogravures by Walt Goettman
November 2 - December 31, 2007
Opening Reception November 2, 2007 5:30- 7:30pm
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This body of work is a sequence of
images from an on-going project started in 2000 titled Beneath
These Skies. The prints are copperplate photogravures
aprroximately 9x9 on 18x15 somerset satin. The works present metaphors
for metaphysical questions of confluent aspects of documentation
and abstraction, the universal and the specific, connotation and
denotation, the discursive and the intuitive, the empirical and
the transcendental.
Since graduating from Rochester Institute of Technology, Walt
Goettman has exhibited color and black and white work nationally.
An interest in photo etching led to a specialization in copper
photogravure which he studied at Crown Point Press and Pyramid
Atlantic.
Photogravure is one of the most difficult and most beautiful photo-mechanical
techniques uniquely combining velvet aquatint tones with photographic
dilineation of detail producing dense blacks, detailed tonality,
platetone, and embossed platemark with unrivaled archival permanence.
The foundations for photogravure were laid in the mid nineteenth
century, but perfected by Karl Klic in 1879. The process has remained
basically unchanged.The hand-pulled photogravure was virtually
abandoned by the end of the first quarter of the twentieth century
due to it's difficulty and impracticability. The resurgence of
this process attests to the dedication of the modern practitioners
who appreciate the unique properties of the photogravure print.
~ Walt Goettman |
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